Blog Post 1: Symbol
Rebecca Blog Post 1: Developing Symbol
Upon the first chapter of Rebecca, there is a sense of longing for a place called Manderley. Rebecca dreams that she is a ghost, entering the charred ruins of her old mansion Manderley and envisions herself in it. Her being a ghost may not just be the fact that she can't actually enter Manderley anymore, it could be a symbol of how that is her dead past. It's as if she left a whole other her back in Manderley and she is envisioning herself as the ghost of what she used to be. The destruction of Manderley lingers in her mind, and when she says that "Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more" she is stating how that is now a ghost left behind. She misses Manderley and that is why she is having dreams of how she used to be a part of that world. Now seeing herself as just a ghost is symbolizing how Manderley is no longer there and is just a ghost in her memory.
I definitely agree with this, Lexi. The idea that she is a ghost and that she has left behind a "dead life" is quite prevalent in the first chapter. The main character goes on to walk about such as a ghost would, remembering the past that haunts them. I think you have an interesting point that it is as much literal as it is metaphorical that Manderly was a life and now it is being left behind.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read your blog entry I thought Manderley was the ghost that haunted the Narrator, forever branded in her family's memory as an unutterable topic; now, I also enjoy picturing HER as the one who haunts Manderley, where a piece of her－and her life－has been left behind forever. A life lived in Rebecca's shadow.
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